The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE English Tories swear by Gosch.-New
York Journal.
Ir will probably call for little Of the Ohio
cure to settle the Hoosier Bourbons.
Leader
WE still cling to the simple faith that the
acme or human wisdom is to know when to lay
down a poker hand. Macon Telegraph
EVIDENTLY all the revolutionary Democrats
in the Indiana Legislature need is plenty of rope
to hang themselves with.-Chicago Journal.
THE physician who attends a great man does
so at the risk of his professional reputation
When famous statesman or soldier dies some
fool correspondent is sure to set af1oat report
that he was killed by malpractice. Minneapolis
Tribune
THERE is great deal of bosh being written
and printed just now about MIR. Grady's vice.
presidential boom, as though one harangue
could make Vice president any more than one
swallow could make Misunderstanding IVA
Index-AppeaL
We are anxious to see the pending bill passed
IN some form at the present session of Congress
but 1T becomes more and more evident as the
discussion goes on that some modification should
be made In the sections relating to the long and
short haul and to pooling contracts.-New York
Times.
We are sorry for Colonel Watterson's di-
vinitv; but is she rot exhibiting her sore toe
rather too openly2 Quiet people getting dis
gusted with the spectacle; and as for the pro-
fame, their remarks are such that if she could
hear them she would hasten to get off the side
walk into the nearest respectable house.-New
York Herald.
THERE is so much the matter with Hanna
the Hon. Bayless w. Hanna, our minister to the
Argentine Republic-that it is time a reform ad
mnistration called him home. Our relations
| with the Argentine Republic may not be very
important, but there seems no good reason Thy
| our country should be made laughing stock
| there.-Boston Journal
| The indecent and profane abuse of the Su
| preme Court of Indiana by the leading Demo
cratic organ of that State is tolerably sic n
! that the slandered tribunal has been rising
above politics and making some decisions from
| the stand point of law and justice. 1t follows
! with almost equal certainty that the decision
was against the Democratic party.-Phiiadel
| phia Press.
! THE Democrats in the Indiana Senate are
! playing just such another game as their brethren
OF the Ohio Legislature tried last year, and it is
| hardly probable that they will have any better
success than followed the efforts of the Buckeye
| Bourbons to steal the Senate. The first move
/ ment made by them at Indianapolis was in direc.
violation of law and precedent, and will no,
stand.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
| A MORE disgraceful article than this Sentinel
outbreak has rarely, if ever, marred the pages oil
an American newspaper. Respect for the law
| and for the courts. which are supposed to ad
minister it in justice nearly as human fall
Dility permits, is part Of the everyday religion
| OF the great majority of American citizens
| Such offensive abuse as this of the Sentinel il
| calculated to do infinite harm among the uure
| Hectlng 1t is great pity that in an aggravated
case of this kind the man who so abused the lib
| erty of the press cannot be dealt with by the out
| fashion which IN earlier days would have beer
! his philadelphia Press